Boyle was pastor of Saint Patrick's for 30 years until 1983 when he was named pastor emeritus.

As pastor of St. Patrick's, he renovated the rectory in 1956, purchased a building in 1959 at 504 Mahantongo St. to serve as a parish meeting hall, and built a chapel and crypt in Calvary Cemetery that were dedicated in 1964. In 1969, he started a $450,000 renovation of the church that was built in 1892.

Boyle was instrumental in the founding of Nativity B.V.M. High School in Pottsville in 1955 and the St. Joseph Center for Special Learning in 1956.

He studied for the priesthood at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, and was ordained in 1931. In 1947, he was named Domestic Prelate of His Holiness, which bears the title of monsignor.

Boyle was an assistant pastor at St. Mary's Church, Saint Clair, 1931-33, and St. Margaret's Church, Narberth (Montgomery County), 1933-35. Between 1935-39 he was a professor at Roman Catholic High School in Philadelphia.

In 1939, he was named the archdiocesan director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and a member of the finance and promotion committee of the National Office of the Propagation of the Faith in New York. He held both positions until March 12, 1953, when he was named the pastor of St. Patrick's. The following March 30 he was appointed dean of Schuylkill and Carbon Counties, a position he held eight years.

When the Diocese of Allentown was created in 1961, Boyle was appointed dean of the West Schuylkill Deanery and a diocesan consultor, positions he held eight years and 14 years respectively. He served a second term as dean of the West Schuylkill Deanery, 1972-75. He was the procurator for the Clergy for the First Synod of Allentown, formally celebrated May 1, 1968.

Born in Freeland, Luzerne County, he was a son of the late John F. and Mary Anne (Gaffney) Boyle.

He had been a board a member of Good Samaritan Hospital, Pottsville; regional spiritual director of the Holy Name Society for Carbon and Schuylkill Countyes, 1954-62, and spiritual director of the Nursing Guild of Carbon and Schuylkill counties, 1954-61.